Month: August 2016

A lot of the Outrigger tires were created for specific Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) based upon style and also efficiency needs they had for the tools they made. Since OTR Wheel Design has the tire engineers and also the sources to develop as well as develop its own tire molds, building new tires for particular niche markets is a lot easier. One more reason there are many one-of-a-kind dimensions in the family. With it all the Outrigger tires with the R4 tread have maintained an unique look or look that makes then standout from other off the road tires in the market place.

There are 2 standard types of tire building– radial and bias– that have to be thought about when picking either a substitute tire for sure applications or when spec’ ing new tires on an initial devices automobile.

Bias ply tires are built of overlapping crossed layers of cord product and are generally made with nylon, polyester, or various other materials. The crossed plies operate on a diagonal from tire bead to tire bead as well as make up a generally rigid sidewall area. Often, added crossed plies or breakers are utilized under the tread area to additionally stiffen the crown location as well as offer much better wear resistance or other performance parameters (such as puncture resistance, etc.).

Bias Ply Tire Considerations

• stiffer sidewalls show far better driver handling/feel

• lower sensitivity to sidewall snags/hazards/rusting

• reduced initial tire purchase rate

Radial ply tires are made with the cord product running in a radial or direct line from bead (at 90 levels to the centerline of the tire), and are commonly made with one steel body ply or multiple body plies of other products. Under the tread location, the radial tire normally has three or 4 crossed plies or belts constructed from steel cord to stabilize the crown location as well as offer much better puncture resistance. The radial sidewall area is normally much less stiff compared to the bias ply sidewall, though the tread location is usually much stiffer. Bias ply tires possess been made over the years to execute in various sorts of applications from all-highway to on-off road, to all off-road service problems. With the arrival of the radial tire as well as some of its integral advantages, the bias tire is now utilized much less regularly in long run over-the-road applications. Radial tires commonly are used in applications where warmth accumulation with bias ply tires is a trouble. With the many enhancements to radial tire building and construction made over the last few years, the radial tire is currently utilized in essentially all kinds of company problems.

Radial Tire Considerations

• far better tread wear efficiency

• greater capacity for retreading

• much more energy reliable

• lower sensitivity to tread punctures

• far better grip features

Tubeless as well as Tube-Type Tires

The tubeless tire is similar in construction to a tube-type tire, except that a slim layer of air as well as moisture resistant rubber is used on the inside of the tubeless tire from bead to bead to get an inner seal of the covering. This gets rid of the requirement for a tube as well as flap. The two types of tires call for different rim configurations: the tubeless tire makes use of a single-piece wheel; and also the tube-type tire calls for a multi-piece wheel setting up

Tubeless Tire Qualities vs. Tube-type:

• less difficult placing procedure because of utilize of a single-piece wheel

Low aspect ratio tires are a group of radial tubeless tires which showcase section sizes wider than their section elevation. The ratio of tire area height to area width for these low aspect ratio tires are generally 65% or lower. Low aspect ratio tires have much shorter sidewall elevations as well as broader tread widths than their “traditional” aspect ratio tire counterparts.